Adoración Guamán (Law Professor at the University of Valencia, Spain) Impunity prevails with Transnational corporations (TNCs) that systematically violate human rights. We need an international treaty to ensure that communities affected by TNC crimes have access…
Alberto Villareal (Friends of the Earth Latin America & Caribbean) – REDES AT – FoE Uruguay Impunity prevails with Transnational corporations (TNCs) that systematically violate human rights. We need an international treaty to ensure that communities affected by…
Manoela Roland from Human Rights and Business Center (HOMA) – Brazil Impunity prevails with Transnational corporations (TNCs) that systematically violate human rights. We need an international treaty to ensure that communities affected by TNC crimes have access to…
Erika Mendes from Justicia Ambiental – FoE Mozambique Impunity prevails with Transnational corporations (TNCs) that systematically violate human rights. We need an international treaty to ensure that communities affected by TNC crimes have access to justice. Social…
Harris Gleckman Global governance is slipping away from the United Nations. Whether it is in managing the Internet, where the UN’s governing structure offers only an advisory role for governments; or climate change, where the most exciting…
Elizabeth Peredo Beltrán (Bolivia) Translated by: Mark Cramer (Paris) These days I am immersed in rage, pain and despair. The Amazon is in flames, the Chiquitanía is gravely wounded and beneath the fires, many of our hopes…
Friends of the Earth Africa groups have described the convergence of oil palm plantation companies under the aegis of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) holding their 3rd Africa Sustainable Palm Oil Conference in Accra, Ghana from August 20…
The powers of multinational corporations touch the lives of virtually every community on Earth and in profound ways. Across Latin Americas the race is on for the region’s natural resources and giant international corporations stand at…
SAVE THE DATE! WEEK OF PEOPLES MOBILISATION 12 – 19 October 2019 2019 WILL BE A DECISIVE YEAR FOR THE BINDING TREATY ON TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS! We call to mobilise worldwide on 12th October…
Open letter to the Member States of the Organization of the United Nations 23 July, 2019 Re: Publication of the “Revised Draft” for the negotiation of the “Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate, within the framework of International Human…
Environmental and human rights groups in the Philippines support the resistance led by the Didipio Earth Savers Movement (DESAMA) and Didipio-Watch against destructive and irresponsible mining in Nueva Vizcaya. We call on all international groups to express their solidarity…
The adoption of the new Statute responds to the need to update the terms of reference and the area of the competence of the PPT, in consideration of the evolution of the institutions of international law and the experience…